My final post! This semester has been so much fun and I think I’ve gained a lot of invaluable experience and knowledge during my time with the Lilly Library. To start off I’d like to say a quick thank you to all of the faculty and staff at the Lilly, but especially to Jody Mitchell… Read more »
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Handling the BIG items
This week we tackled a patron digitization request for two HUGE maps of Turkmenistan. When I say huge, I mean one was about 5 feet wide (the other was about 3 feet wide), so we had to get pretty creative with how to photograph the map. Due to the unusual size, we were not able… Read more »
What is this, a broadside for ants?!
This week was more of the same; specifically, I focused on scanning more broadsides. The BookEye was still having some issues from last week where it was running into space limitations, so we weren’t doing a whole lot of work with that system so we didn’t have to fuss with clearing out storage. The broadsides… Read more »
In which I was personally wronged by the BookEye
This week was, for the most part, the same as usual. I worked with a new Latin American manuscript, I scanned some more broadsides, and worked on a few art prints. The unusual part of this week in digitization comes in the form of technological problems. I was working with a Latin American manuscript on… Read more »
Make Good Art
The theme of this week is art! I was able to work some more with the broadside collection and got to help with a new collection! The art collection I was working on was a set of test prints from a work called The Criers of London. The main focus of each print was a variety… Read more »
Hear ye, hear ye (but in paper form)
This week was by and large the same as the last couple of weeks, HOWEVER, I did get to work with some new material! In addition to the usual Vonnegut and Welles collections, we started working on a collection of Latin American broadsides. If you don’t already know, broadsides are typically large pieces of paper… Read more »
Ricketts redux
This post will probably end up being a little less substantive than usual because the main thing I want to highlight was that I was able to finish scanning the Ricketts 132 manuscript this week! The little volume was such a fun change of pace from what I usually work with and ended up having… Read more »
Ricketts [but not the bad kind]
This week I was able to work with a few really cool items! The first item was an oversized art print book featuring illustrations alongside the poem the Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. The book was absolutely huge and took up the majority of the scanning deck of the Book Eye (the overhead scanner)! Scanning… Read more »
Acronym City
This week consisted of even more scanning! I was primarily working with the Kurt Vonnegut collection, so I am unable to share the images from the collection due to copyright restrictions and/or the terms of the donation. I also processed a few patron orders (one of which was for scans from a newspaper from the… Read more »
Patrons and Pictures
This week in the internship was a little different than we had initially planned, due to some staff being out sick, unexpected reshoots, and patron requests. So instead, this week was more of the same as the two previous weeks for me. I processed a few patron orders (a French army officer corresponding about a… Read more »